Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Revision, Clean Head and Neck Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-07-07
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

We hypothesized that revision clean head & neck surgery may have a higher rate of wound infection that may be lowered with prophylactic antibiotic treatment.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rabin Medical Center
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Cefazolin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Previous H&N surgery.

• Planned second H&N clean surgery (the definition of a second H&N surgery is a surgery which will include the same skin incision as the previous operation).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous neck irradiation.

• Tracheostomy status.

• Immunosuppression.

• Concurrent infection which requires antibiotic use.

• Any other factor during the surgery which the surgeon estimates requires prophylactic antibiotic use.

• Allergy to cephalosporins and allergy to penicillin which precludes the use of cephalosporins (e.g. anaphylaxis).